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MEF? Very interesting post over here…. mtaulty Places to Intervene

MEF?
Very interesting post over here….
mtaulty

Places to Intervene in a System By Donella H. Meadows
Here we continue the developer.* Systems and Software series, in which we explore the topics of general systems thinking and cybernetics to discover how “systems” concepts can help software professionals in the day-to-day work of creating, deploying, and improving software.
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Review: LINQ Quickly
One of the big advantages of LINQ is that we could use it against Objects, collections, XML, etc. Most importantly, searching a collection or a node in XML can be easily done using LINQ. LINQ uses queries similar to SQL, which is rather easy compared to querying an XML using XPath. The author, Satheesh Kumar, explains LINQ and how it can be used to solve the most common issues lying around objects, XML, SQL, Datasets and XSD. This is a great book for beginners.
Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das)

WPF styles and default behavior
After my recent presentation at the VBUG conference, somebody sent me this question: "I have code to style a button and several triggers to change the button’s background color. For some reason, the trigger for the IsPressed property doesn’t seem to work. Why?" Here’s the …
Oliver Sturm

Silverlight Streaming (aaaaarggggggggh)
For whatever reason. I cannot get my screencast up onto Silverlight Streaming.I keep getting failed to proccess video.I have tried encoding the video (with various settings), and used both Expression Encoder 1.0 and the Encoder 2.0 Beta.Same error and an unhelpful error it is. It encodes fine on my …
chrishayuk